Improvement in slab and bottle-holder for dentists



E. P HANKS. Shah and Bottle Holders for Dentists.

Patented March 5,1878.

MEIER UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

EDMUND F. HANKS, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT lN SLAB AND BOTTLE-HOLDER FOR DENTISTS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 200,829, dated March 5, 1878; application filed July 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. F. HANKS, of Jersey City, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Slab and Bottle-Holder for Dentists Use, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, like letters of reference indicating like parts.

The object of my invention is to make a combined slab and bottle-holder for dentists use in filling teeth; and the nature of my improvements consists in the novel manner of constructing a slab and bottle-holder by combinin g, with the bottles necessary to plastic fillings, a porcelain slab fixed on a stem and base, in such a form that the whole may be grasped by the little finger of one hand and held easily and firmly in an upright position, and at the same time permitting the operator to freely use all the other fingers about the patients mouth or the apparatus may be set on a table and used by the operator as well without holding on the hand. It is especially adapted to plastic fillings, the porcelain slab to be used for preparing the same; but to describe my invention more particularly, I will refer to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

The figure is a perspective view of the slab and bottle-holder.

A is the porcelain slab for preparing the fillings; B, the stem for grasping by the little finger of one hand; G 0, the bottles necessary for holding ingredients; and D, the base for supporting the apparatus, as on a table.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the United States, is-

The combination, in a holder for dental use, of the slab A, the stem B, the bottles 0 G, and the base D, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

EDMUND F. HANKS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM P. W001), J 0s. R. VAN SYcKLE. 

